Uninstall Redhat Network Components - Continued

Thanks for all the replies. I am in the process of deleting
 anything to do
with the up2date package and also rpm's that have rhn stuff
in.

I have started to remove some packages but they have allot
of dependencies
on other packages, could someone tell me if i am OK
uninstalling the
following without having an adverse affect on my machines:

up2date-update-4.2.38-1
up2date-4.2.38-1
up2date-gnome-4.2.38.1
firstboot-1.1.19-2
rhn-applet-2.0.12-1

Regards

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>On 11/7/06, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) <MarMcDougagov.mb.ca> wrote:
>> IANAL, but:
>> What they want is money.  If you don't pay them
then you
>can't use ANY of their EL distributions.  That's what
Fedora
>and the other "free" distributions are for.
>>
>> So, to answer your question, they want you to
remove
>everything that was installed from either the RHEL
>installation CD or the downloaded RHEL ISO's. (V2, 3, 4,
and 5)
>
>No, you aren't required to remove the OS which is
distributed under
>the GPL. See the FAQ for some information on this ...
>
>  http://www.r
edhat.com/rhel/renew/faqs/#6
>
>I don't know what they mean exactly by "Red Hat
Network Code" but I
>suspect that refers to non-GPL code related to RHN,
stuff like
>satellite server code perhaps. It would be nice if this
were clarified
>in the same FAQ in the future.
>
>John
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Good FAQ, John.  A couple of years ago when RH went the
subscription
route there was great debate as to how the GPL would be
interpreted
within the context of the licensing agreement, as the 2
seemed to
conflict.  If I remember correctly, the licensing agreement
specified
that if you stopped paying subscription fees you gave up the
right to
use the RH sw.

However, I would suggest, Andrew, that if you unconfigured
up2date so
that your servers never knocked on RHN's door you would be
ok.  (Just my
opinion)

Regards, Marshall

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> Thanks for all the replies. I am in the process of
deleting  anything to do
> with the up2date package and also rpm's that have rhn
stuff in.
>
> I have started to remove some packages but they have
allot of dependencies
> on other packages, could someone tell me if i am OK
uninstalling the
> following without having an adverse affect on my
machines:
>
> up2date-update-4.2.38-1
> up2date-4.2.38-1
> up2date-gnome-4.2.38.1
> firstboot-1.1.19-2
> rhn-applet-2.0.12-1

These should be fine to remove.  All of these except
firstboot relate 
directly to RHN.  firstboot is used to run the first time
after the 
install to do some final setup tasks.  Your machines are
already running, 
and should not need that either.

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